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Hugo Lowell

Trump asks supreme court to intervene in Mar-a-Lago special master dispute

Donald Trump at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina in September.
Donald Trump at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, in September. Photograph: Chris Seward/AP

Donald Trump on Tuesday asked the US supreme court to partially reverse an appellate court decision that prevented the special master, reviewing for privilege protections materials seized by the FBI from his Mar-a-Lago resort in August, from examining 100 documents with classification markings.

The motion to vacate the ruling by the US appeals court for the 11th circuit represents the former president’s final chance to reinsert the 100 documents into the special master review – and potentially exclude some from the investigation into whether he illegally retained national defense information

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